| Conceptual List of Entities |
All Entities in the model are listed below in conceptual groups with brief descriptions. Color codes follow the e-r diagram. Descriptions should not be considered definitive definitions of scope of entity.
| Part of Model | Entity Name | Brief description |
|---|---|---|
| Taxonomy | TYPE_TAXON | Taxonomic group that is the type for a group of higher rank |
| Taxonomy | HIGHER_TAXON | Taxonomic group of rank Genus or higher |
| Taxonomy | PROPOSED_COMBINATION | Species rank name |
| Taxonomy | UNAVAILIBLE | A Species name that is unavailible under the rules of the ICZN |
| Taxonomy | INVALID_PUBLISHED | A Species name that is Avialible, but considered Invalid |
| Taxonomy | VALID | A species name that is considered valid |
| Taxonomy | ORIGINAL_FORM_OF_SPECIES_NAME | The original form and spelling of a species name |
| Taxonomy | NOMENCLATORIAL_ACT | Any use of a species name that could form an entry in a synonomy |
| Occurance | OCCURANCE | A report of a species having been found in some provenance |
| Occurance | OBJECT_VOUCHER | Occurance records based upon collections objects |
| Occurance | LITERATURE_VOUCHER | Occurance records based upon literature citations |
| Vouchers | IDENTIFICATION | The assignment of a species name to a collections object |
| Vouchers | CAST | A physical copy of a Collections Object |
| Vouchers | COLLECTIONS_OBJECT | A physical object such as a fossil held in a paleontological museum collection |
| Vouchers | FOSSIL_ON_SLIDE_(XY) | An individual fossil located on a microscope slide through X Y coordinates |
| Vouchers | FOSSIL_ON_SLAB | A fossil located on a particular part of a slab of rock |
| Vouchers | FOSSIL_ON_GRIDDED_SLIDE | A fossil located in a particular grid square of a microscope slide |
| Vouchers | LOT | A collections object that has been taken to at least stage 3 (sorted) of the collections continuum |
| Vouchers | PART_OF_ASSOCIATION | A collections object that is part of an associated set of fossils |
| Vouchers | SLAB | A lithified rock bearing fossils |
| Vouchers | SLIDE | A microscope slide bearing one or more fossils |
| Vouchers | SPECIMEN_COMPONENT | A Collections object that is part of a fossil collected or present in more complete form |
| Vouchers | STORAGE_LOCATION | Repository or place in a repository where a collections object is found |
| Vouchers | SUBSET_OF_LARGER_OBJECT | A collections object that is part of a larger collections object such as a particular fossil on a slab |
| Vouchers | TRAY | A collections object consisting of a set of specimens in a specimen tray, box, or similar container |
| Vouchers | AUTHOR | An author of a publication |
| Vouchers | AUTHOR_PUB_ASSOCIATION | Associative entity relating authors and publications. |
| Vouchers | BOOK | Bibliographic reference to a book |
| Vouchers | BOOK_PUB_ASSOCIATION | Associative entity relating books to publishers |
| Vouchers | CITATION | Entity relating publications to references to that publication in various contexts |
| Vouchers | COLLECTING_EVENT_CITATION | Associative entity relating collecting events to publications |
| Vouchers | ELEC_PUB_ASSOCIATION | Associative entity relating electronic publications to publishers |
| Vouchers | ELECTRONIC_PUBLICATION | A publication in some non-traditional electronic form |
| Vouchers | JOURNAL_ARTICLE | Bibliographic reference to an individual article in a serial publication |
| Vouchers | JOURNAL_OR_SERIES | The name of a serial publication |
| Vouchers | KEYWORD | A word or phrase in a controlled vocabulary that is used to identify the subject matter of a publication |
| Vouchers | LANGUAGE | The language in which a publication is written |
| Vouchers | LOCALITY_CITATION | An associative entity relating Earth Surface Features to Publications |
| Vouchers | MON_PUB_ASSOCIATION | Associative entity relating monographs to publishers |
| Vouchers | MONOGRAPH | Bibliographic reference to a monograph |
| Vouchers | OBJECT_CITATION | Associative entity relating publications to collections objects for reasons other than taxonomy |
| Vouchers | OTH_PUB_ASSOCIATION | Associative entity relating Other Publications to Publishers |
| Vouchers | OTHER_PUBLICATION | Bibliographic reference to an unpublished work or a form of publication other than a Book, Journal Article, or Monograph |
| Vouchers | PART_OF_PUBLICATION | A publication that is part of another publication |
| Vouchers | PUBLICATION | A bibliographic reference to a published or unpublished work |
| Vouchers | PUBLICATION-KEYWORD_ASSOCIATION | An associative entity relating Publications to Keywords |
| Vouchers | PUBLISHER_OR_UNIVERSITY | The publisher of a book, monograph or Other Publication |
| Vouchers | STRATIGRAPHIC_CONTEXT_CITATION | Associative entity relating publications to collecting events |
| Vouchers | TAXONOMIC_CITATION | A subtype of citation that relates names applied to collections objects to publications using those names |
| Interpretations | INTERPRETIVE_INFORMATION | Information related to a species name |
| Interpretations | CHARACTER | Characters and Character states describing the morphology of a species |
| Interpretations | BIOLOGICAL | Information concerning the biology of a species |
| Interpretations | PALEOENVIRONMENTAL_INFORMATION | Information concerning the paleoenvironmental setting of a lithostratigraphic unit |
| Interpretations | INTERPRETATION | Paleoenvrironmental interpretations related to lithostratigraphic units |
| Interpretations | LITHOLOGY | Data concerning the lithologies found in lithostratigraphic units |
| Interpretations | INT_COM_PUB_ASSOCIATION | Associative Entity Relating Proposed Combiniations with Interpretive Information and Publications |
| Interpretations | PUB_PALE_LITH_ASSOCIATION | Associative Entity Relating Lithostratigraphic Units with Paleoenvrironmental Information and Publications |
| Provenance | SUBSTRATE_TYPE | Conditons reported from the collecting site of a recent sample |
| Provenance | 1D_LOCATION | A linear distance |
| Provenance | 3D_LOCATION | Location on the surface of the Earth recorded as Latitude, Longitude, and altitude in meters using a specified datum |
| Provenance | AUTHORITY | Source for information indicating that a collecting event came from a particular stratigraphic context |
| Provenance | BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC_ZONE | An interval of geologic time |
| Provenance | COLL_STRAT_ASSOCIATION | Associative entity relating collecting events to their geological context |
| Provenance | COLLECTING_EVENT | The act of collecting a set of collections objects at a particular place and time. |
| Provenance | COMPLEX_SPATIAL_OBJECT | A spatial object that is not defined by a simple geometry |
| Provenance | EARTH_SURFACE_FEATURE | A geographic location on or near the surface of the Earth |
| Provenance | EARTH_POSITION_COMPOSITE | A region in three dimensional space defined by a set of bounding locations |
| Provenance | GEOCHRONOLOGIC_ZONE | An interval of time corresponding to a biostratigraphic Zone |
| Provenance | GEOCHRONOLOGIC_EPOCH | An interval of time of rank Epoch |
| Provenance | GEOCHRONOLOGIC_AGE | An interval of time of rank Age |
| Provenance | GEOCHRONOLOGIC_ERA | An interval of time of rank Era |
| Provenance | GEOCHRONOLOGIC_PERIOD | An interval of time of rank Period |
| Provenance | GEOGRAPHIC_FEATURE | A named Earth surface feature such as a hill or river |
| Provenance | GEOLOGIC_PROVINCE | A large region with a bedrock geology that shares a common large-scale tectonic history |
| Provenance | GEOPOLITICAL_FEATURE | A region on the surface of the Earth delimited by political boundaries such as a county, state, or town |
| Provenance | GEOPOLITICAL_ASSOCIATION | Associative entity relating two Geopolitical Features in a parent-child relationship (this includes both nesting relationships, such as towns within counties, and temporal relationships such as name changes) |
| Provenance | LEGAL_SURVEY_2D_LOCATION | A location on the surface of the Earth specified by Latitude and Longitude |
| Provenance | LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_SUPERGROUP | A formally named body of rock of rank supergroup |
| Provenance | LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_GROUP | A formally named body of rock of rank group |
| Provenance | LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_UNIT | A formally named body of rock |
| Provenance | LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_FORMATION | A formally named body of rock of rank formation |
| Provenance | LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_MEMBER | A formally named body of rock of rank member |
| Provenance | LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_BED | A horizon or informally named body of rock of rank bed |
| Provenance | LOCATION | A linear distance or a point on the surface of the Earth |
| Provenance | ORIGINAL_LOCALITY_DESCRIPTION | The verbatim text of the description of a locality where a collecting event occurred |
| Provenance | OUTCROP | An exposure of rock at the surface of the earth where one or more collecting events have taken place |
| Provenance | POINT | A point on the surface of the Earth |
| Provenance | REGION | A simple geometric region on the surface of the earth defined by a center and one or two linear distances such as a circle, square, or ellipse |
| Provenance | SEA_LEVEL_CYCLE | An interval of time identified within a sequence stratigraphic scheme |
| Provenance | SIMPLE_SPATIAL_OBJECT | A simple geometric spatial object |
| Provenance | SPATIAL_OBJECT | A point or region in space |
| Provenance | STRATIGRAPHIC_CONTEXT | The temporal and/or lithostratigraphic context of a collecting event |
| Provenance | TEMPORAL_OBJECT | A point or interval of geologic time |
| Provenance | TEMPORAL_PERIOD | A formal interval of geologic time |
| Provenance | TEMPORAL_EVENT | A point in geologic time |
| Provenance | WELL | A hole drilled into the surface of the Earth |
18 Apr 1998